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What job/s would you happily see gone to AI?

1026 sats \ 23 comments \ @stack_harder 9 Apr AskSN

Usually, AI is talked about in a fear context of the loss of tons of jobs, but some jobs would be better done by AI IMO.

For me, it's Amazon seller support - the shittest, most useless, most impotent hellscape that is 100% always a stressful and head-bashing experience.

I would be far happier to just deal with a fucking ai bot at this stage.

the average amazon support agent, not only has a poor grasp of English and lack basic comprehension skills, they also constantly fail to read messages and respond with cookie-cutter FAQs to close a case as quickly as possible.

this is probably because Bezos has some kind of Hunger Games situation where they fire you for not dealing with 1000 cases a minute, far more than a human could provide adequate support on.

I'm convinced that ai can already do a better job and address sellers' issues way better.

who/what would you like to see just be AI already?

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140 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 9 Apr

I would love to see the busy work from my field go to AI: finding references, summarizing findings, writing abstracts, data processing, etc. The fun parts of research are thinking up research questions, figuring out how to go about answering them, and explaining how to interpret the findings. A lot of the rest is pretty tedious.

37 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 9 Apr

Same. It has already worked out quite well for me on exactly these axes. My day to day has got generally more fun, but it hasn't been obvious how to make that happen.

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder OP 9 Apr

do you have to do this yourself at the moment or are there appointed research slaves to handle it?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 9 Apr

Many of my brethren have RA's for some of this, but they're slow, expensive, and unreliable. Plus, most of us don't want to be managing people. Just stick us in a quiet room for a while and let us cook.

37 sats \ 4 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 9 Apr

Controlling what floor an elevator stops at.

I can’t stand it when an elevator that is full of people stops at my floor and we are all going the same direction.

AI could detect that the elevator was already full and it would not stop on any other floors to pick anyone else up.

It would just go to the destination floor and significantly increase the flow of traffic on an elevator.

32 sats \ 0 replies \ @aljaz 10 Apr

this cant happen soon enough - the elevators in the building i'm staying at are driving me insane

14 sats \ 1 reply \ @alt 10 Apr

A hospital near me has a smart elevator system. Everybody who wants to use it has to press the button for the floor they want to go to (this is in the hallway before getting on the elevator). So, if you are in a group of three people, all three of you press the same button.

The system then tells you which elevator to get in, and tracks how many people are on board based on how many times the button is pressed and which floors it stops at.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder OP 10 Apr

sounds awesome, i've never seen a smart elevator.

even in the mall i refuse to take one because i get pissed off with all the waiting about!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder OP 10 Apr

this is a great idea actually, gives me flashbacks to elevator rage when it was a part of my office life. hidden bonus was i'd usually just walk the 7 flights of stairs and get the bonus cardio

32 sats \ 1 reply \ @flat24 9 Apr

customer service (restaurants and shops)
taxi drivers (taxi apps have helped reduce scams, but they don't help with rude or reckless drivers)
government procedures (nothing worse than dealing with a public sector worker who is unhappy and ineffective at solving problems)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder OP 10 Apr

i look forward to the end of shity, rude, public sector workers

14 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 9 Apr

Certainly, any work that people are unhappy doing and once removed will lead them to be happier doing something else. This is probably fewer jobs than we'd think because most people I meet who are miserable doing their jobs will only be more miserable without them.

17 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder OP 10 Apr

very true, i think most people would be happier with a job and some money V no money at all. the ai wrecking ball is coming in hot though

14 sats \ 1 reply \ @suraz 9 Apr

Content writers.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder OP 10 Apr

i think most have already been replaced, just ai writing articles, then ai summarising them and a very small percentage actually reading.

52 sats \ 0 replies \ @unschooled 9 Apr

Therapists I know of a few people who would love to get therapy if only they could afford it. Where I am, it feels like a health related service that is reserved for the elite class.

Also, it would help in destroying the monstrosity that is becoming of MAID laws

52 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 9 Apr

Sadly, translators. Work in an underserved community with a lot of immigrants and ~half don't speak English and it is so frustrating.

You wait a few minutes to get a translator on the ipad, then they give you a 60 second spiel to introduce themselves and give a disclaimer (I know why I called you on an ipad just give me an OK button disclaimer), then they introduce themselves to the patient with the same disclaimer.

It's all such a waste of time and was especially infuriating during the height of covid in 2020. I've been using chatgpt advanced voice mode often which works surprisingly well but it's surprisingly gotten dumber since the initial release (they'll sometimes randomly start answering instead of translating).

It seems like a huge market (IIRC we pay $4/minute for human translators) I'm surprised ai voice companies like Sesame are not tackling this...

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Dkryptoenth 11 Apr

Really wish there was an Ai tool for small scale sand digging and packing... lol

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 9 Apr

Prostitution.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Gian 9 Apr

Lawyers, and all types of workers in cleaning...

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @carter 9 Apr

Quality Assurance

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 9 Apr

Central bankers.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 9 Apr

Would be nice if politicians were replaced with ai. Just dont know how that would work lol